Johnson County, Iowa
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Johnson County is located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 152,854, and was estimated to be 160,044 in 2025, making it the fourth-most populous county in Iowa. The
The Johnson County Courthouse in Iowa City
Old Johnson County Courthouse, Iowa City, 1857-1899
Lulu Johnson (historian)
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Lulu Merle Johnson was an American historian and university administrator. She was the second African-American woman to earn a PhD in history in the United States, and the first to do so in the state
Johnson County, Iowa
…Vice President Richard M. Johnson (1780–1850). In 2020, the Johnson County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to change the county's namesake to be Lulu Merle Johnson (1907–1995), the first black woman in the state to earn a doctorate. Vice President Johnson had a common law enslaved wife (Julia Chinn) whom he could…
Lulu Johnson (left) with members of her Sunday School class, Gravity, Iowa, ca. 1920